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Small Asteroids and Comets Visited by Spacecraft as of September 2022

Small Asteroids and Comets Visited by Spacecraft as of September 2022
Small Asteroids and Comets Visited by Spacecraft as of September 2022 A montage of 20 of the 22 asteroids and comets that have been photographed up close as of September 2022, when the DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. Not included are Vesta or Ceres, both of which are many times larger than Lutetia. Original montage by Emily Lakdawalla / The Planetary Society. Updated 2022 by The Planetary Society. Data from NASA / JPL / JHUAPL / SwRI / ESA / OSIRIS / ISAS / JAXA / Russian Academy of Sciences / UMD / China National Space Agency / Goddard / University of Arizona. Processed by Emily Lakdawalla, Daniel Machacek, Ted Stryk, Gordan Ugarkovic, Thomas Appere.

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